Re: Emacs 23 and git-emacs

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> From: Markus Heller <hellerm2@gmail.com>
> Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2009 13:25:00 -0700
> 
> Peter Dyballa wrote:
> > 
> > Am 10.09.2009 um 18:39 schrieb Markus Heller:
> > 
> >> I guess I need to let emacs know where to find the git binaries ...  
> >> But how? (add-to-list 'load-path) maybe?
> > 
> > 
> > On UNIX it's:
> > 
> >     (setenv "PATH" (concat "/some/directory" ":" (getenv "PATH")))
> > 
> > GNU Emacs also has the variable exec-path. And you can simply customise 
> > it! So I think this one is the means to make GNU Emacs find your GIT 
> > programmes.
> > 
> 
> Pete,
> 
> thanks again.  I tried M-x customize-variable <Ret> and added the path 
> to the git binaries to exec-path.  After restarting emacs, I still get 
> the same error message.

Did you modify _both_ the value of exec-path _and_ the value of PATH
as suggested above?  To make all Emacs commands work correctly, you
need both, especially if some of programs invoked as subordinate
processes are shell scripts or invoked through the shell.